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Biography
Ferran Martín was born in Barakaldo (Vizcaya), Spain in 1965. He received the B.S. Degree in Physics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1988 and the PhD degree in 1992. From 1994 up to 2006 he was Associate Professor in Electronics at the Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica (UAB), and since 2007 he is Full Professor of Electronics. Throughout his career, he has been very active in research fields as diverse as metamaterials and artificial transmission lines, microwave circuits and filters, antennas, chipless-RFID, and planar microwave sensors (his main research topic at present). He is the head (and founder) of the Microwave Engineering, Metamaterials and Antennas Group (GEMMA Group) at UAB, and director (and founder) of CIMITEC, a research and technology transfer Center ascribed to the Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica (UAB). He has organized several international events related to metamaterials, chipless-RFID, and sensors, including Workshops at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (years 2005 and 2007) and European Microwave Conference (2009, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2024), and the Fifth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials 2011), where he acted as Chair of the Local Organizing Committee. He has acted as Guest Editor for seven Special Issues on metamaterials and sensors in various International Journals. He has authored and co-authored over 700 technical conference, letter, journal papers and book chapters, he is co-author of the book on Metamaterials entitled Metamaterials with Negative Parameters: Theory, Design and Microwave Applications (John Wiley & Sons Inc.), author of the book Artificial Transmission Lines for RF and Microwave Applications (John Wiley & Sons Inc.), co-editor of the book Balanced Microwave Filters (Wiley/IEEE Press), co-author of the book Time-Domain Signature Barcodes for Chipless-RFID and Sensing Applications (Springer), co-author of the book Planar Microwave Sensors (Wiley/IEEE Press), and co-Editor of the book Coupled Structures for Microwave Sensing (Springer). Ferran Martín has generated 22 PhDs, has filed several patents on metamaterials, chipless-RFID, and sensors, and has headed dozens of development contracts and collaborative projects with companies.
Prof. Martín is a member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S). He is reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques and IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, among many other journals, and he serves as member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, IET Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, and Sensors. He is also a member of the Technical Program Committee of the European Microwave Conference (EuMC) and member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics (Metamaterials). Among his distinctions, Ferran Martín has received the 2006 Duran Farell Prize for Technological Research, he holds the Parc de Recerca UAB – Santander Technology Transfer Chair, and he has been the recipient of three ICREA ACADEMIA Awards (calls 2008, 2013 and 2018). He is Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the IET.